Rating: Summary: Great Product, Speed and Memory Review: I Highly recommend the XD digital cameras and XD memory cards. I purchased a Fujifilm S5000 digital camera which came with a standard Fujifilm 16mb card. I upgraded to this Fujifilm 128mb XD card and have had no regrets or problems. A good deal for a price of around $50 to $65 dollars. You can double the memory, 256mb, for around $110 dollars. I found the Olympus 128mb XD card is cheaper in price than the Fuji, but when I researched them both, the Olympus card when you touch the connectors the memory, in some incidents, have been erased. This was a risk I was not going to chance for $2 to $6 dollars less in price. In the 6M quality mode ( 2816 x 2120 pixels ) I can get approx 90 photos and 165 photos in the 3M quality mode ( 2048 x 1536 pixels ). The XD high speed can greatly enhance the user's experience with the product. A photographer can take & store new pictures or view existing images on the LCD screen more quickly with the XD Picture Card than with other, slower media formats. This means less battery drainage! The Con's, Small: could easily be misplaced or lost. Price: the XD card is a little bit more expensive than other memory cards, but you get what you pay for!
Rating: Summary: Excellent Deal for XD on Amazon Review: I priced Xd Cards in Ireland and was shocked (but not surprised) to find high prices for it. I went to Amazon and got it for $33 less (about €27) than the best deal in Ireland. I got my package exactly 1 week after I ordered it and the package arrived excellently packaged in official Fuji container. The XD Card increased my Fuji S7000 from a max of 10 6Mb pictures to about 88 max resolution pictures. Very happy !
Rating: Summary: The price is out of this world! Review: I received $19.99 off of this card as a promotion with my new digital camera, making this card the deal of the century. My co-worker, who has the same card and camera, was amazed at how inexpensive it was before the discount(he paid around 70 bucks!). The 128 mb size is great--I really don't want to screw around changing cards, but I think 256 mb might be excessive, unless I was going on vacation. The size worries me, because I think it might be very easy to loose, but the plastic case that comes with it is much, much bigger than the card--about the size of a chips ahoy chip cookie?--which may be a concern for those of you interested in this solely because of the tiny size.
Rating: Summary: Format is not an issue Review: I recently bought a Fuji camera that uses xD-Picture memory cards. Here are important things that I consider: - Fast: Writing fast and erasing fast saves battery and you time. - Small: If you decide to buy more than one memory card, then you will have less trouble keeping all of them in you camera's pouch. Also, they are less likely to break appart. - Looking ahead: this format is going to be here when 4Gb cards start to become available. Other current formats do not support this size (Look how Sony broke compatibiity with it's new hideous MemoryStick-2) - Life time of the format: Let's be realistic, chances are that you are going to buy another digital camera anyway in the next 2 years - to get grater megapixel capabilities or because your new computer does not have USB ports anymore. I am pretty confident that this format will be around for quite a while. But, I would recomend this format to people that do not have any photo printer that reads from the other memory cards formats. If you have a printer that takes CompactFlash cards, buy a camera that uses it. If you don't have such a printer or do not plan on buying one, then you do not have any reason to avoid this format. Besides, you can print from xD-picture cards at[local store] - cheaper than at home. Price differences are not significant anymore, expect prices to drop even more when 256MB and 512MB xD cards become available.
Rating: Summary: Amazing New Storage Device Review: I recently bought a Fuji Finepix 2650 digital camera that utilizes the new xD Picture Card. The xD card it is an outstanding product. My first two digital cameras (HPs) used CompactFlash - the xD card blows CompactFlash away. In the world of performance electronics - size is king. The xD card is about the size of a penny! When I showed my friends the xD card and they were amazed. They couldn't believe the xD card was so tiny - way smaller than CompactFlash or SmartMedia. The card has super fast access times - and it's better on power consumption than either CompactFlash or SmartMedia. For those concerned about compatibility issues, don't worry. With the CompactFlash adapter, the xD card can be used in CompactFlash devices (a huge plus since I've read reports that the xD card will be available in 1+ GB sizes later this year).
Rating: Summary: What a Great Card!! Review: I understand that some people do not like the XD card - too bad! I have a Minolta Dimage 5 that takes the Compact Flash card and it eats batteries like M&M's. I get roughly 40 shots per set of batteries. I also have a Fuji 3800 and a Fuji S5000. Both take the XD card and I love it. I'm getting roughly 130-140 shots per set of batteries (both cameras). And the card stores more than the other cards. So what's not to like? I know that some people are also unhappy because the XD doesn't work in other devices. So? I bought the disk for the camera only. If I need another disk for another device - so be it! I'm not going to wear out my camera's disk by popping it in and out and reinserting it in something else. The bottom line is that I'm very happy with this format.
Rating: Summary: Works as promised, but what about the future? Review: I was very excited to purchase a digital camera which uses the new xD memory card. The camera came with a 16 MB card, but I quickly opted to upgrade to the 128 MB version. At the time of purchse, 128 MB was the biggest version available. For about double the price you can now invest in the new 256 MB version. I think 128 MB is sufficient for taking pictures during a week-long trip. For my camera (and this depends on the resolution you use), 128 MB translates into about 200 pictures! The card itself is extremely small - as the manufacturer claims, about the size of a penny. So far it behaves precisely as promised in the camera and when I'm downloading pictures to the computer. I have to warn you about some of the negatives of this new xD card in general, not just the 128 MB version. As you might know, CompactFlash, SecureDigital, and SmartMedia are much better established memory cards. They are physically larger in size, that's true, but the number of appliances accepting CF, SD and SM is huge - digital cameras, cell phones, PDA's, you can even use it for memory in your computer! Furthermore, CF, SD and SM cards are significanly cheaper. Will xD ever catch on? Will it ever drop in price to the levels of the other three? Will it ever be used as widely as CF, SD and SM? Will xD ever make high capacity cards, like the 1 GB SanDisk you can currently purchase? It is true that xD cards have the potential to store up to 8 GB (more than the others), but when will these cards be made, and will they be cheap enough to be useful? The bottom line, it seems, is the following. On the plus side, xD is small and is used in some very enticing digital cameras. On the minus side, the three firmly established memory cards (CompactFlash, SecureDigital, and SmartMedia) are cheaper and more widely used. Until the xD card gains in popularity and is used in more applications, I would be careful about buying a camera which uses xD and about buying further xD accessories, such as this 128 MB xD card.
Rating: Summary: Caution for Olympus Camera Using Fuji xD card!! Review: It seems using the Fuji Card on Olympus Camera the "Panaroma" feature does not work. I encountered many other options were disabled too.
Rating: Summary: Right to the Bottom Line Review: It's a memory card. If this is the format your camera (or other device) uses, it works. If it's not the right format, no need to read any further. Is this the right size for you? At the 3.2 megapixel "fine" setting, my camera will store about 100 pictures, depending on how complex your pictures are. On a more practical level, if you're not planning on turning your photos into 8x10 prints, and you use a lower resolution, you can pack a heck of a lot of pictures on one card. At the time of this writing, 256MB cards are still on the drawing board, and many devices that use XD memory may need firmware upgrades to use them if (when) they do make it to market. Smaller cards are not usually proportionally smaller priced, so IMHO, if you have a device that uses XD memory, this is the right card for you.
Rating: Summary: Great! Review: Lets me take oh so many more photos than my 16MB card does. Writes faster, all the goodness that that entails.
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